Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-21


he entire world is consumers of our fruits
md vintage, and the question of transport
alton has been solved by the builders of
)ur trans-oontinenta railroads. You
IAN raise citrus fruits in the northern sec
ion with as little difficulty as you can the
leciduous fruits and when this business has
been gone into extensively every train that
goes east from California will carry fruits
rom your orchards 365 DAYS in the wear.
You can raise oranges up here as good as
we can at the south. Perhaps not in every
locality, but in some sections your crops
will be equal to ours in every respect No
man has ever gone into the business of
orange culture in the south that has not
made it pay.
Many years ago, when riding across the
plains with his mother, in a conversation
with her, he said: Mother, will this
country ever be settled ~ Yes, my dear"
was her reply, but not in our time" She,
however, was mistaken in her prophesy,
for it was settled before she died in 1852.
In closing the Governor said he had the
interest of the whole State at heart While
the south was his home, he loved the
north while some sections were endeared
by fond memories. still it was all Califor-
was his adopted State, the grandest,
fairest portion on Gods green earth. Zap
plause.l
THE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
"The State Agricultural Society-the
ward of the State; the harvest home of its
people" was responded to by L. J. Rose,
of Los Angeles, who is one of its Directors.
His remarks were eloquent, pointed and
frequently interrupted with applause. He
said he was totally unprepared to suitably
to the sentiment. 1t was one of
his misfortunes to desire to say pleasant
things and to be unable to do so. Although
a resident of Southern California, he was
an ardent admirer of Sacramento, the Capt.
tai of the State. He admired her big and
generous-hearted people. This magnificent
banquet was simply one of a long list of
evidences of the hospitality and generosity
of this people. No one who ever visits Sac
goes away except to sound
her praise. He referred in eloquent lam
guage to the floral display upon the ban
quet table and throughout the Pavilion. |
am a lover of flowers they are to me as
little children their beauty and fragrance
have an inestimable charm, and the flora
of California has no equal in the world.
The fruits of California have a world wide
reputation, and as for brave men and beau
tiful women, no State in the Union can
compare with her. For twenty years
| have resided in California, and in all that
time there has not been day nor an hour
that | have not felt proud to claim
it as my home. When l look
about the Pavilion and see the
immense displays of luscious fruits,
elegant productions, beautiful flowers, and
healthy faces, need lcok no further for
the cause of the boom. The boom has
been earned upon merit and will continue
to grow, for as the Governor has truthfully
there is but one California. I
am from the South, but no pent-up Utica
finds place in my breast. Applause. !
There is no part of California that is equal
to all the rest. l have preference for the
South, there is my home, but it is only
portion of my adopted State. California.
Breathes there a man with soul SO dead,
Who never to himself hath said.
ms is my own, my native land?
There is no portion of this State which
can exclaim, Eureka we have it all"
SACRAMENTO COUNTY.
The toast Sacramento county = the
Queen of the Valley was responded TO by
George W. Hancock, who spoke as follows:
Before l enter upon the subject of the
toast desire to render thanks to my fell
low towrsmen for this kindly testimonial
of generous feeling to these representatives
of our sister counties
Fellow citizens, feel proud of you to-
night. May your tribes increase, :"
Queen City of the Valley" washed by the
water from the melting SHOWS of Shasta's
dome, famed by the solstice breezes from
San Diego bay. We have here the home of
the orange and lemon, the fig and the
raisin, the lime and the olive. | do not
detract from any other county's fair fame
and resources in saying word of praise
for my own. The first settlement of Cali
fornia was drawn here by the lure of gold.
Men rushed to her hills and dug and
delved for the shining thing that men did
worship and call god" Sacramento was
and stores were hauled by mules and
horses to her sister counties to sustain those
who were digging the earth for precious
gold. We have seen change. The At
lantic and Pacific have been bound to-
gether with clasps of steel, and the iron
horse has driven the mule team and the
prairie schooner from the road forever.
Following the golden era came herds of
cattle and horses, and Sacramento's plains
were dotted black with their numbers.
Again we have seen her vast herds give
way to fields of waving grain that, too, in
turn, has been pushed from within our
boundaries, till the orchard and vineyard
are now the chief care of our husbandry.
The future wealth of our county will be
drawn from our orchard and vineyard land,
by our vast water supply and
our genial, winterless climate.
Ladies and gentlemen, before l proceed
further, l wish to thank those industrious
spirits who have made this banquet posi-
BILE fact, by grouping together these county
exhibits from these ten loyal and true dis
tricts. Loyal and true 10 themselves, and
therefore true to the best interests of the
whole State.
Born on the other shore of this CONT
tinent, under the shadow of Bunker Hill,
and in my boyhood days hearing SO much
of that great hub, that our friend Murphy
so pointedly alludes to, yet | crossed the
roaring ocean-came in the Golden Gate
and up the river to Sacramento, from which
| walked out to ranch situated upon the
rivers bank, where 1 took up tilling the
/ produced lbs bushels of bar
ley per acre, 100 bushels of wheat and have
seen ST. 800 worth of Bartlett pears picked
from one acre of trees, that had neither
been pruned or cultivated in three years,
and there is my hatchet exhibiting one to
Leake, OF Solano). 1t has been my lot to
labor, but i assure you, ladies and gentle
men, | have always labored from choice.
was placed on this earth to work or live
in idleness. ! had my choice, in idleness
to starve, in work to live; | chose to live.
There are 100000 acres of land in Sacra-
mento county, practically vacant, capable
of yielding ten per cent. per annum, or
S25 per acre. The Natoma Vineyard of
table grapes last year netted on the plat
form OF the railroad station 1910 per acre,
and that is the poorest land, valued by its
taxation, in Sacramento county. But, la
dies and gentlemen, must bring this to
close. You have heard the encomiums
upon San joaquin, Ell Dorado. Placer. Ne
vada, Yuba, Butte, Tehama, Colusa, Yolo,
Napa and Solano. God bless them. But
in my long roaming over this lovely State
have learned that Sacramento is the other
end of that great hub, and these surround
ing counties are the spokes, fellies and
bands of steel that revolve around this CEN
ter of wealth and beauty. as do the eternal
spheres revolve around the central sun of
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